This has been a huge week for The Bachelor franchise. First, on Monday night, Sean Lowe and Catherine Giudici got engaged on national television during the finale of The Bachelor Season 17. Then, Tuesday morning, Sean announced on Good Morning America that he would be competing on the upcoming season of Dancing with the Stars. Finally, on Thursday, famous Bachelor couple Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney welcomed the birth of their baby girl, who they named Riley Anne Mesnick.
"We welcomed the most beautiful healthy baby girl to our family today Riley Anne Mesnick," Jason tweeted. "Thank you all for your well wishes! @MollyMesnick"
We welcomed the most beautiful healthy baby girl to our family today Riley Anne Mesnick.Thank you all for your well wishes! @mollymesnick
— Jason Mesnick (@jason_mesnick) March 15, 2013
Riley was born in Seattle, Wash. — she weighed in at 6 lbs., 8 oz., and is 18 3/4 inches long, as Jason and Molly tell People. The baby also already "has a full head of hair — probably more than I’ll have in the next few years," Jason said.
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Jason, 36, is quite proud to see his bride, whom he met while starring on Season 13 of The Bachelor, hold his daughter. "What’s amazing to me is when Molly is holding Riley, her eyes do not come off her," Jason said. "I’m already seeing how much Molly loves the baby."
Riley makes the second addition to this Bachelor family, as Jason has an 8-year-old son named Ty from a previous marriage.
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After 25 seasons of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette — and countless breakups — you would think skeptical audiences would give up on watching beautiful people find love on television. But, following high ratings for Sean Lowe's Bachelor season, ABC has announced a 26th season. On Monday night duringThe Bachelor: After The Final Rose, fourth runner-up Desiree Hartsock was announced as the star of The Bachelorette.
While Desiree has experience competing on the reality dating series, she now must cope with life off the sidelines and into the spotlight. So what can she learn from previous Bachelorette? Here's a list of eight lessons Desiree can learn from those looking for love before her.
Eight Lessons for the New Bachelorette:
Trista Sutter (Season 1): Make It Last. If you are a fan of The Bachelor/Bachelorette franchise, then you know that it's rare for a couple to make it down the aisle. Out of 25 seasons, only two couples have tied the knot: Trista and Ryan Sutter and Ashley Hebert and J.P. Rosenbaum. Sutter, however, is the poster child of Bachelor franchise success — the reality star and her husband, who have been together since they met in 2003, have two children together. (Ashley and J.P., married in 2012, have a long way to go.) Desiree, please try to join the married few.
Meredith Phillips (Season 2): Be Remembered. You are probably wondering who, in fact, Phillips is. For those with shoddy memories, Phillips starred as The Bachelorette back in 2004 — only nine years ago. So why don't we remember her? Unlike the cast of characters normally who are associated with this franchise, Phillips didn't chase fame or give the tabloids reason to print stories about her. And since going on The Bachelorette, all she has done is participate in a 20/20 special in 2010 and come out with a cookbook. So Desiree, if you want a reality TV future, get the drama started now.
Jennifer Schefft (Season 3): Don't Settle. Jen may have found love on The Bachelor with Andrew Firestone. But after a short realtionship, the two split and Jen went on to star as The Bachelorette. At the end of her season, Jen turned down two proposals, leaving the show single. If it doesn't feel right (or if it leads to a reality TV-friendly shocking moment), then move on.
DeAnna Pappas (Season 4): Don't Let the Good One Get Away. Pappas dumped one of America's favorite Bachelor men: Jason Mesnick, a single dad with a heartwrenching backstory. While Pappas broke Mesnick's heart, he went on to star on the next season of The Bachelor. Now, he is happily married to someone else with another baby on the way. Don't invite the ire of Bachelor audiences by letting the good guy go, Des.
Jillian Harris (Season 5): Make Reality TV a Career. Harris found love and a career on reality TV. Not only did she participate in The Bachelorette (and The Bachelor before that), but she parlayed those appearances into a job with a Canadian home design show, Love It or List It Vancouver, and is featured as a designer on ABC's Extreme Makeover Home Edition.
Ali Fedotowsky (Season 6): Let the Bad Ones Get Away. Those who tuned into Ali's season may recall Justin Rego, a contestant who Fedotowsky discovered had a girlfriend back home. He also happened to be on crutches, which made his mad dash out the door hilarious.
Ashley Hebert (Season 7): Let Us Say It Again: Let the Bad Ones Get Away. Hebert may be married to her Bachelor boyfriend Rosenbaum now, but there was a time when she fell hard for bad boy Bentley Williams, the most hated Bachelor villain of all time. (Yes, he's even more heinous than Courtney Robertson and Tierra LiCausi.) When not whispering sweet nothings into Hebert's ear, Williams would insult the Bachelorette in front of the cameras. (Exhibit A: "I came in thinking that Ashley was not attractive at all. I'm not feeling it. ... I'm gonna make Ashley cry.") Note to Desiree: Keep these villains around for a few episodes to keep us entertained, but then drop them like he's hot, regardless of how hot he is.
Emily Maynard (Season 8): Make ABC Give Into Your Every Demand. ABC knew they wanted Maynard to be The Bachelorette and Maynard knew that she wanted it to happen her way. So instead of heading to Los Angeles to film the first few episodes, she made ABC travel to Charlotte, N.C. for production so her daughter's life wouldn't be disrupted. (Now, if only the reality show didn't end up doing that precise thing anyway.)
Season 9 of The Bachelorette premieres on ABC this May!
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Wondering who the upcoming Bachelor star, Sean Lowe, is engaged to? Well, if you take a look at RealitySteve.com, the website predicts which women will make it to Lowe's final four and whom Lowe selects to become his fiancée. It's because of spoilers like this and other episode giveaways that Bachelor producers sued the site's runner, Steve Carbone, for the second time in two years, E! reports. But, Carbone has taken to his website to state that he won't be stopped from revealing his spoilers.
The court papers that were filed on Dec. 21 (and obtained by E!) reportedly imply that Carbone has gone against the settlement of the first lawsuit and gotten information about the upcoming Season 17. In the suit, NZK Productions and Horizon Alternative Television Carbone imply that Carbone uses Bachelor confidential information on his site to make money, and that Carbone must have gotten "at least some of the confidential information" from soliciting cast and crew who are under contract not to relay any information to others.
"For those that haven’t heard the wonderful news of the day, yes, I was sued back on Dec. 21st by the production company of the 'Bachelor” series for ummmmm, well, I’m still trying to figure out what," Carbone posted on his site Friday. "I continue to spoil their show every season, they’re pissed about it, so this is how they respond. What’s funny in all this is, by suing me, they’re admitting that my spoilers are correct."
The new suit claims that Carbone violated the agreement they reached on May 31, 2012 by posting new spoilers for the upcoming season, which include descriptions of each scene for episodes one through five. And producers are seeking $75,000 from Carbone for interfering with contractual relations — and $10,000 for each of his alleged violations.
Carbone claims that he is looking into his "legal options at this point" and may counterclaim. "They are the big guys and I’m the little one and they are trying to squash me," he wrote. "I don’t see that happening since I did not violate our Agreement, nor did I intentionally interfere with any contracts, which is what their latest complaint is stating.
"The point of the Agreement, or so I thought, was to prevent this exact thing from happening," he added. "I didn’t want to have to respond to a lawsuit every single time I posted a spoiler on my site because NZK Productions THINKS I got my information illegally. But that’s exactly what they went ahead and did since they have shown me no proof that I violated the Agreement, because they have none... Everything remains the same on the site."
The network, ABC, is not part of this lawsuit and has no comment on the situation.
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Another one bites the dust. Bachelor and Bachelorette fans are so used to that phrase when it comes to the relationships that form on the show. But on Sunday night, Ashley Hebert and J.P. Rosenbaum became the third couple out of 24 to tie the knot. During a two-hour special, The Bachelorette: Ashley and J.P.'s Wedding, the cameras followed Ashley and J.P. as they planned their wedding with celebrity wedding planner Mindy Weiss, tasted cake, tried on dresses, and finally said "I do" in front of all their guests. But while their wedding basically seemed to come right out of the pages of Brides magazine, there were also some moments, that well, to be quite honest, just seemed down-right awkward and out of place for a wedding special.
These are the 10 weirdest moments from Ashley and J.P.'s wedding special:
1. A Dog Fitting. While we got to follow Ashley for the final fitting of her gown at Randi Rahm's design studio, the cameras also captured another fitting. Ashley and J.P. decided that they wanted their teacup Yorkie, Boo, to take part in their wedding, so Boo had to get dressed for the occasion. Their wedding planner put together a special dog-dress fitting for Boo. And one dress even cost $7,500. That's more expensive than most brides' gowns!
2. Stage Sweepers. Plenty of content is needed to fill the minutes of a two-hour wedding special, but did ABC really have to capture the people sweeping the stage over and over again? Whenever a cut of host Christ Harrison appeared where he was introducing the next scene, set up for the wedding was going on in the background — and you could clearly see the people sweeping the stage where Ashley and J.P. would later say their vows. Why!?
3. The Announcement. Okay, it's well known that the bride's parents are usually the ones who front the bill for the wedding, but Ashley's parents lucked out as ABC paid for the whole shindig. But while they didn't have to worry about writing a huge check, it's still odd that Ashley and J.P. selected a date for the wedding without even consulting their parents first. They instead held a cocktail party in New York City to inform their families of when the wedding would take place after the decision was already made. Even their families were thrown off by this, thinking that maybe the couple would announce that they were pregnant or something else. It was just odd.
4. Bachelor Host Hosts the Wedding. Chris Harrison is famous for hosting 24 seasons of The Bachelorette and The Bachelor and two seasons of Bachelor Pad, but who knew this guy had a second job? During the special, it was surprising to learn that Harrison is licensed to officiate weddings. And he did just that for Ashley and J.P., making them husband and wife. But of course he had to deliver a long, personal speech about himself before it even got to talking about the couple. Selfish, if you ask me.
5. Bridal Breakfast. Bridal breakfasts and/or brunches usually happen the day before a wedding or even the week before. But, Ashley had hers the day of her ceremony.
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6. Kiss Rehearsal. While we didn't get to see Ashley and J.P.'s wedding rehearsal, the cameras did spend a long five minutes capturing Ashley and J.P. practicing the type of kiss they wanted to do on the altar. Ashley wanted one long kiss, and J.P. wanted two smaller ones. So, they insisted on experimenting to figure out which would be best. Get a room, guys!
7. Wacky Wedding Guests. Do Ashley and J.P. have any other friends besides the people who have participated in The Bachelor shows before? During the ceremony, the cameras only focused on catching the Bachelor people — including Trista Sutter and Ryan Sutter, Ali Fedotowsky, Roberto Martinez, Sean Lowe, Molly Malaney, Emily Maynard, Jason Mesnick, and more — in the audience, and forgot about the rest of the couple's guests.
8. Ex Encounters. Rumors are circulating that former Bachelorette star Ali Fedotowsky and her ex-fiance Roberto Martinez got it on during Ashley and J.P.'s big day. And during the TV special, it was quite interesting to see the two exes sitting next to each other and basically flirting up a storm. Could their romance be sparking up again?
9. The Next Bachelor's Prime Seating. During a recent conference call, Ashley told reporters, "I've never met Sean Lowe [the new Bachelor]." This conference call took place after her wedding had already taken place. And guess what? Sean attended Ashley's wedding, even scoring prime seating in one of the first few rows. It's quite possible that Ashley never spoke to him on her big day — but it's still very awkward that he was sitting with the other guests acting like he was a close, personal friend of the couple.
10. Out of Place "I Dos." Chris always tries to be different, but did he really have to have Ashley and J.P. say "I do" before reading their vows? That was just a very out of place lineup. Usually the vows are read first, then the "I dos" are said before the rings are placed on the bride and groom's fingers. Not so this time.
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Wedded bliss: it's not just for normals anymore! Looks like Ashley Hebert and her season's winner of The Bachelorette have made it official and tied themselves into a metaphorical knot of holy matrimony.
The two reality lovebirds tied the knot Saturday afternoon in Pasadena, California, surrounded by family, friends, and other Bachelor and Bachelorette folks such as Ali Fedotowsky, Emily Maynard, and Jason and Molly Mesnick. The couple swapped said vows in a ceremony officiated by host of both shows, Chris Harrison. According to People, "Today is all about our friends and family," explained Hebert. "It's about standing with J.P., looking around at all the people we love in the same room there to celebrate our love."
The couple's momentous occasion will air in a two-hour ABC special on December 16, 2012. This televised event will highlight the journey the couple went through when they met on the seventh season of The Bachelorette, where they became engaged. The two are only the second couple in the franchise's season to get engaged on the show and then follow through with a marriage. The first contestant to do so was original Bachelorette, Trista Rehn, who has been married to Ryan Sutter for nine years. The two also celebrated their eternal love with a televised wedding event held in Vail, Colorado back in 2003.
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True love: something that for a long time seemed only reserved for fairytales — until ABC's The Bachelor and The Bachelorette series came around. Finally! Regular people (who are very attractive and vetted through a long and involved casting process) could find fairytale love! Love that was real and true, just like in the movies!
...at least, that's what we all hoped. But, it turns out, televised matchmaking doesn't work out so well. The Bachelor/Bachelorette couples who remain happy in love are in the minority (to say the least), and the recent breakups of Jef Holm and Emily Maynard as well as Ben Flainjk and Courtney Robertson are just icing on the cake. Who would've thought, right? How is it possible that hand-picked attractive people from around the country going on extravagant dates can't find true love over the course of six weeks? It's shocking, really.
Don't believe us? Check out the numbers and über-fancy statistics, below.
The Bachelor Relationship Rundown
Bachelor Season 1:
Alex Michel and Amanda Marsh — Broke up after 10 months. The beginning of the reinvention of love.
Bachelor Season 2:
Aaron Buerge and Helene Eksterowicz -— Broke up 5 weeks after the finale. Woops.
Bachelor Season 3:
Andrew Firestone and Jen Schefft — Broke up 7 months after the finale. No spare tires for this relationship!
Bachelor Season 4:
Bob Guiney and Estella Gardinier — Broke up 1 month after the finale. What about Bob, indeed!
Bachelor Season 5:
Jesse Palmer and Jessica Bowlin — Broke up 1 month after the finale. It's hard to make a relationship work when your names are THAT similar.
Bachelor Season 6:
Byron Velvick and Mary Delgado — Broke up after 5 years. They became engaged in November 2004 and, while they did endure some domestic squabbles, they didn't officially end their relationship until December 2009.
Bachelor Season 7:
Charlie O'Connell and Sarah Brice — Broke up after two attempts at making it work: May 2005 - September 2007 (28 months), then again November 2008 - April 2010 (19 months). Total: 47 months together; certainly nothing to balk at!
Bachelor Season 8:
Travis Stork and Sarah Stone — Broke up after 1 month, probably because of all the stork jokes.
Bachelor Season 9:
Lorenzo Borghese and Jennifer Wilson — Broke up after 2 months, which makes zero sense because this guy was A REAL-LIFE PRINCE so, like, Happily Ever After was guaranteed, I thought! Isn't that in the Ye Olde Royal Contract?
Bachelor Season 10:
Andy Baldwin and Tessa Horst — Broke up after 4 months. Guess he wasn't a total Baldwin.
Bachelor Season 11:
Brad Womack chose NO ONE because he hates everyone.
Bachelor Season 12:
Matt Grant and Shayne Lamas — Broke up after 2 months. Lorenzo Lamas reportedly weeped for years.
Bachelor Season 13:
Jason Mesnick and Melissa Rycroft — Broke up at the reunion.
Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney — Got together at the reunion (yikes!) and married in February 2010. They're still together and expecting a baby! Mazel!
Bachelor Season 14:
Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi — Broke up after 3 months, and were totally casual and not-at-all mean about it (haha just kidding it was the ugliest break-up on TV maybe ever)!
Bachelor Season 15:
Brad Womack and Emily Maynard — Released an official "we broke up" statement after 3 months (though reports say it ended much earlier).
Bachelor Season 16:
Ben Flajnik and Courtney Robertson — Broke up after 7 months, when Ben realized that the entire planet really didn't like his decision-making skills..
And the Bachelorettes — How Did the Ladies Fare?
Bachelorette Season 1:
Trista Rehn and Ryan Sutter — Married for 8 years and counting! With kids! What a bunch of weirdos.
Bachelorette Season 2:
Meredith Phillips and Ian McKee — Broke up after 1 year. Does anyone remember this season?
Bachelorette Season 3:
Jen Schefft and Jerry Ferris — Broke up 3 weeks after he proposed. Woops!
Bachelorette Season 4:
DeAnna Pappas and Jesse Csincsak — Broke up after 4 months, probably because Jesse's last name was really hard to spell.
Bachelorette Season 5:
Jillian Harris and Ed Swiderski — Broke up after 1 year, probably because she was Canadian.
Bachelorette Season 6:
Ali Fedotowsky and Roberto Martinez — Broke up after 15 months. And, somehow, Roberto did not become the next Bachelor (sorry, Sean Lowe, sure you'll be great).
Bachelorette Season 7:
Ashley Hebert and JP Rosenbaum — Engaged with plans to marry (on live TV! The way it was meant to be done, obviously) in December of this year after 14 months. Hooray for them!
Bachelorette Season 8:
Emily Maynard and Jef Holm — Broke up after 5 months and lots of marionette fights.
Failed relationships: not just for the normals anymore! So what have we learned from all of this? Well, namely it seems like Brad Womack has a terrible track record but loves television. And so does his second-go-around winner/ex-fiancée, Emily Maynard. (Maybe those two crazy kids were meant for each other after all!)
After compiling the numbers and doing a little bit of Bill Clinton's favorite thing (no, not ladies — dirty minds, all of you!), arithmetic, we have put together this handy guide for understanding love, Bachelorstyle.
Here Are Some Fancy Math Facts:
Mean Length of Relationships:13.6 months
Median Length of Relationships:4 months
Mode Length of Relationships:1 month
Analysis:So while the marriages and successes may have thrown us off a bit (13.6 months: what are these people, monogamists?), it generally seems to be that 4 is every bachelor and bachelorette's lucky number. Unless they're one of the five couples who only like quickie, one-month-long relationships.
It seems that the one thing we cantake away from this is that we, as a nation, need to completely rethink our definition of "true love." Obviously, these very attractive and well-groomed pseudo-celebrities know what true love is: they were on a TV show and are good-looking! Duh! So, maybe we should reevaluate what true love really means. If all of these love experts have relationships with an average shelf-life of 1 - 4 months, maybe that's how long true love really lasts! Maybe we've been fooled all of this time by the movies, the Disney princesses, the happily ever afters. Maybe true love can only last a brief period of time (I mean, forever is like, so many years).
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Another one bites the dust. Just 12 days after Bachelor star Ben Flajnik and his fiancee Courtney Robertson called it quits, another Bachelor(ette) couple has called off their engagement. Bachelorette Emily Maynard and her fiance Jef Holm are no longer an item. "I am sorry to tell you that Jef and I have, indeed, parted ways," she tells People. "It was a very difficult and heartbreaking decision."
Despite Holm's dreamy proposal at the end of The Bachelorette Season 8 that aired in July, it just wasn't meant to be for this couple. "As you know, at first I wasn't sure that I should even be The Bachelorette, but I am a hopeless romantic and I do believe in the show," Maynard says. "I have no regrets because I did find love and shared an incredible journey with a really special person — and you know what, we tried our best because the love between us was so real."
"I have nothing but respect and love for Jef and his family, but ultimately we are just at different points in our lives," Maynard continues. "I've learned so much and I'm grateful for all of the support I've received. I'm excited and hopeful for the next chapter in my life with my daughter, Ricki. I do hope that you will respect our privacy and allow us the time we need to heal."
So how does Holm feel about the breakup? "Meeting Emily on The Bachelorette was an incredible experience, we've had quite the journey," he says." I've never loved someone so much in my whole life, Emily is the best person and mom I have ever met. She opened up her world to me and I fell in love with her, [her daughter] Ricki, her family and the Hendricks."
Holm also believes that The Bachelorette truly did help him find love. "She has a great group of people who surround her," he says. "What we shared was completely genuine and real and it breaks my heart but we have decided to break up."
"Emily will always have a special place in my heart," Holm adds. "I don't regret a single second I spent with her or Ricki. They both have been a huge part of my life. Who knows what tomorrow will bring but we are moving on to the next chapter of our lives. Emily and I are great friends and I hope we can continue to be friends forever. Everyone wants a salacious story to break, but the truth is we are just two people who fell in love and tried our hardest to make it work. I will always love her."
For weeks now, rumors have been circling that this breakup was bound to happen, and that Maynard had allegedly cheated on Holm. While neither Maynard nor Holm have confirmed the cheating rumors, their official statements do add their relationship to the long list of failed Bachelor/Bachelorette romances. Out of 24 seasons of The Bachelor franchise, only two couples have made it down the aisle: Trista Rehn and Ryan Sutter and Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney (she was actually his runner-up — he initially left the show engaged to Melissa Rycroft, but dumped her during a special to get back together with Malaney). Plus, this isn't Maynard's first failed Bachelor engagement either. She was briefly engaged to Brad Womack at the end of Bachelor Season 15 before that relationship ended and she got her own show.
So which couples do we have left? Bachelorette Ashley Hebert is still with her fiance J.P. Rosenbaum — but given the franchise's record, will they actually ever make it down the aisle, or is history doomed to repeat itself?
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Gary Collins, actor and longtime master of ceremonies for the Miss America Pageant, died Saturday in Biloxi, Mississippi at the age of 74.
Born April 30, 1938, in Venice, California, Collins joined the army, where he became a dee jay on the Armed Forces Radio. After completing his military service, he sought a career in acting, and landed a starring role in the 1965 sitcom The Wackiest Ship in the Army. From there, Collins continued to secure regular roles in television series such as Iron Horse, The Sixth Sense, and Born Free Collins also guest-starred on many television shows, including Perry Mason, The Virginian, Hawaii Five-O, The Six Million Dollar Man, Alf, The Love Boat, Charlie's Angels, Friends, and JAG.
Collins was a six-time Emmy Award nominee, and won in 1983 for Outstanding Talk Show Host.
In the 1980s, Collins turned his focus to hosting--and from 1980 to 1988, he served as host of the television talk show Hour Magazine, a less-controversial show than his tabloid-focused counterparts. It was during this time that he also worked as the master of ceremonies at the Miss America Pageant.
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'Bachelor' Star Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney Are Expecting a Baby

Famous Bachelor father Jason Mesnick is going to be a father once again. Mesnick and his wife Molly Malaney, who he met while starring as ABC's The Bachelor, are expecting their first baby together, People reports. "Our family is getting a little bit bigger!” Molly, 28, says. “I’m into my second trimester and I feel really good.”
While this is Mesnick and Malaney's first child together, Mesnick, 36, has one son, Ty, 7, from a previous marriage. “He’s been so excited to be a big brother,” Mesnick says, adding that he and Melaney broke the news to Ty by playing a game of hangman. "The answer was ‘Tyler is going to be a big brother,’” Jason explained. “He’s been asking me for years. He’s always wanted to be a big brother. So we played the game and he looked at Molly and I and said, ‘Really?’ Molly made him a T-shirt that says ‘Big Brother’ on it and he’s really proud. He wore it to school.”
Mesnick also confirmed the news on Twitter. "Yes its true! WAHOOOOOOO!!! Molly is going to be a MOM and TY a BIG BROTHER! YIPPEEEEEEE!" he tweeted Thursday. "I am trying to keep up with the tweets! But thank you all for the well wishes. We are beyond excited! Thank you thank you!! WAHOOOOOOOOO!"
The enthusiasm is a far cry from Mesnick and Malaney's rocky start. On season 13 of The Bachelor, Mesnick left the season engaged to Melissa Rycroft. But after the finale, Mesnick had a change of heart — and during a special, he broke it off with Rycroft and asked Malaney for a second chance. Mesnick and Malaney then tied the knot during on Feb. 27, 2010, in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. (Following in Bachelorette star Trista Rhen married Ryan Sutter's footsteps, their vows were broadcast during a two-hour special titled The Bachelor: Jason and Molly's Wedding, on March 8, 2010.
Even though Mesnick and Malaney had a rough start, this exciting news proves that Bachelor fairytale endings can come true... on occasion. Okay, on rare occasions. Malaney is due in March 2013.
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If you found yourself in the checkout line of a grocery/convenience/drug store this week and took a casual glance at the tabloid headlines, then you are well aware that things may be a little shaky for former Bachelorette Emily Maynard and her fiancé Jef Holm. Or maybe not. Who can say, really?
In case you're not in the Fresh Direct cult, the basic dealio is that Emily has allegedly been sexting an unidentified man-floozy. Emily denies it, Jef denies it, story over. But ho! There's more! In a made-for-daytime-TV twist, Jef tells People that it was his very own brother who leaked the totally not true (they all swear on little Ricki's life) story to the press. It's a vicious tale of lies and deceit that pits brother against brother in the quest for true love — which makes it perfect headline fodder.
Emily and Jef's visages may be splayed all over the glossy covers, but why, exactly, are their domestic issues newsworthy? Well, because the tabloids say so. Think about it. If Emily and Jef and Whoever from such and such season of The Bachelor weren't in the headlines, would you even give their relationships a second thought? Probably not. Because, after the final rose has been handed out, these so-called "celebrities" go from being television stars to just regular people. Gone are the cameras, the fantasy dates, the never-ending supply of free alcohol, and you're left with regular people, doing regular things, trying to make a regular relationship work.
And you know what? Regular couples sometimes break up. What!? Shocker, I know, but hear me out. Sometimes, kids, relationships don't work out, and people go their separate ways. And let's not forget that an entire season of The Bachelor is filmed in approximately six weeks. Which means these "I've never been this in love before" couples have been dating for less than two months. The number of relationships that have ended after six weeks can't even be quantified because most of the adult population doesn't even consider that a relationship. A fling, maybe. A dalliance, a "situation." But rarely a relationship. Call me when you actually get married, Emily and Jef, because that'll be newsworthy.
In Bachelorland, marriage is like the carrot on the end of the stick: always dangling in front of you, completely unattainable and, when you stop and think about it, not actually that appetizing. Only once has the Bachelor or Bachelorette actually married the person they handed that final rose to. Trista Réhn and Ryan Sutter remain the only couple to make it from the season's last episode to the altar. (Jason Mesnick and Molly Melaney are now happily married, but Mesnick picked Melissa Rycroft, not Melaney, in his season's finale.)
So, here's a proposal (the kind that doesn't come with a ring): How about we stop talking about the Bachelor couples' relationship rollercoasters, let them live their lives a little, and turn our attention to actual news? Let's focus on important things, like Amanda Bynes' latest car crash and Kim Kardashian's newest Twitter photo.
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Met 2009 while filming ABC's "The Bachelor"; Mesnick proposed to Rycroft during season finale; He broke up with her on-air during reunion special and announced he was still in love with season runner-up Molly Malaney